I stayed in my tent until 8h00 because I wasnt in a rush to leave and wanted to start slow. There were still pancakes left from breakfast so I sat down and enjoyed having a chair and a table to eat 🙂 I did nothing the whole morning except wandering around in the magical forest behind Casa de Luna. Every hiker who stays there paints a rock an places it somewhere in the forest. Some…
There is no way to sleep longer than 7h00 because all the hikers that leave in the morning have to pack up their tents and they will make noise, a lot of noise. After getting up I trotted around in the camping area for s bit before making myself some breakfast. If tortillas with nutella counts as making breakfast 🙂 At 10h00 we started a trip to REI, a local hardware store for backpackers. I needed new…
Even though the day was very wind, the night was more quiet than expected. I got enough sleep and felt good and warm enough to leave my sleeping quilt. At 7h00 I left the campsite with only 1 more tent behind me. I don’t know how everyone gets up that much earlier than me… This view must have been even better at sunrise, but I’m apparently too much of a long sleeper to see sunrises 🙂 …
The first movement in our room was made by Woody, he got op early for breakfast. Early means around 8… We started moving at 9, everyone got another shower and packed the bagpack to head out. We had breakfast at the Evergreen cafe. Like everyone in this town they are very hickerfriendly. The servings were huge! Not your standard huge, but just uneatably huge. After breakfast I went to the post office to get my new sleeping…
Same procedure as every day, as I got out of my tent at 6h30, mine was the only one still standing. Just after 7h00 I left for the 14 mile waterless strech before I would get to the McDonalds at the Cajon junction. The first few miles were uphill again to get out of the valley of the lake where the famous camping spot is. When you have this specific goal in mind, which is close…
As said the night was cold and in the morning it was not easy to get up, but you don’t have a choice 🙂 After 3 miles I ran into a part of my trailfamily who camped just ahead of me which I didn’t noticed because my camp was off trail. At the next waterstop another 3 miles after I saw them we had breakfast an a 15 minutes Yoga class. But I think next time…
Dinner with a nice view 🙂 We camped about half a mile away from the Highway 18 where we wanted to hitch into Bigbear. We left the camp just after 7am and reached the highway 10 minutes later, we were lucky and someone just dropped of a few hickers, so he took us back into town. We got our resupply done by 8h30 and went over to have a nice breakfast 🙂 The hitch…
The shower was badly needed and the laundy too, eveb though it has only been 2 days out there. We sat on the couch an looked Robot-wars, of which the trailangel must have been a huge fan, because he even stopped mid sentence if something happened during the match. Dinner was hotdogs, easy to make but if you are living from precocked meals they taste fantastic 🙂 After dinner we had a beer and a shot of Moonshine, a…
Bar and Resraurant went well, Beer and a Burger, felt great to eat some real food again even if I’m not that long on trail. I woke up around 7h00 but until I was ready to go it was already 8h00. I jumped quick into a supermarket to buy breakfast for today and for the rest of the week before walking to the trailhead 1 mile outside of Idyllwild. Healthy breakfast 🙂 For the rest of…
I slept until 6h00 until the sun woke me up. It took me half an hour to get everything packed up. I am getting faster 🙂 After 2.5 more miles I reached the highway which leads to Idyllwild. I tried to get a ride for half an hour before surrendering and walking another 2 miles to a small grocerie store where I bough breakfast (snickers and a liter of lemonade). From there on I caught…